Scott Adams and Dilbert regularly
ridicule management, usually represented by the pointy-haired boss, or PHB.
Over the many years Adams has been
drawing the strip, he's certainly found plenty of targets for ridicule. Many of
them have struck home with workers and bosses alike.
I thought...

Jay Shepard has an interesting post today
at Above the Law where he talks about the need for partners to teach associates
to be future partners .
He lists seven things a teaching partner
should do to strengthen the firm for the future:
Be consistent.
Share the whole picture.
Provide...

Jonah Lehrer writes in Wired and
The New Yorker about Steve Jobs using architecture to inculcate teamwork when he
took over Pixar.
He insisted that Pixar's headquarters
be designed so that disparate groups of employees were forced to come together for
certain functions. He insisted on a large...

Larry Downes in Forbes has an article on the decline and (they presume) fall of Best Buy . Other than the hagiography of Amazon.com, 1 there are some very interesting points in the article.
Before you read it, though, consider what you think intuitively is Amazon's core advantage over Best Buy...

Larry Downes in Forbes has an article on the decline and (they presume) fall of Best Buy . Other than the hagiography of Amazon.com, 1 there are some very interesting points in the article.
Before you read it, though, consider what you think intuitively is Amazon's core advantage over Best Buy...